SALVS REIPVBLICAE (18 january / 17 november 474)

Bust of Leo I facing, cuirassed, wearing a helmet with crest and a pearl diadem. Holding a spear passing behind his head with the right hand and a decorated shield with a horseman slaying an enemy, with the left hand.

Leo II on the left and Zeno on his right, both seated on throne. Leo II resting his feet on a step. A latin cross placed between their two heads. A star placed between REI and PVBLICAE.

Photo d'une monnaie vendue le 05/03/2018 par Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, Auction 253, lot 922, lien vers la vente: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4781858, lien vers leur site: https://www.gmcoinart.de/. Formerly: Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, 6 march 2017 Auction 244, lot 619. From the collection of a Munich doctor, acquired between the 1960s and late 1990s.

Variant with step under the feet of Leo II. 

I noted four obverse and two different reverse dies for this officina (including the variant with step which have only one reverse die and of which I have listed only one copy). I saw the coin quoted in the RIC X, n°803, officina H, source: Tafel XXXVII n°2071. The variant is without step. 

On the obverse I noted ''Bust of Leo I'' because it is obvious that it is not a portrait of Leo II who is a child.